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According to several media reports in Hainan, on the morning of September 19, 25 kilometers from Anding on the highway around Hainan Island, a range Rover suddenly burst into smoke and caught fire, which eventually turned the whole car into scrap iron. According to the online video, the front of a white range Rover parked in the emergency lane suddenly caught fire, and the fire quickly spread to the entire body. After the car caught fire, the rear vehicles stopped and lined up in a "long traffic jam".

Subsequently, Haikou City Qiongshan District Binjiang Fire Rescue Station quickly arrived at the scene, after half an hour of fighting, the fire has been basically brought under control.

Although the fire was eventually put out, the front of the Land Rover was severely destroyed, the wheels and bonnet parts were completely melted, and the whole car was completely blackened and completely scrapped.

According to media quotes, the driver tried to put out the fire with a fire extinguisher at the beginning of the fire, but the fire extinguisher was so big that he had no choice but to watch the car be covered by the fire. According to firefighters involved in the rescue, the vehicle that caught fire was a range Rover, and the specific cause of the fire is still under investigation.

It is worth mentioning that the range Rover is not the first time it has caught fire, and there is a precedent. In May 2018, when a range Rover was driving to the Lianhuo highway, the engine compartment of the car smoked and caught fire quickly. The fire was soon put out by firefighters, but the whole car was basically scrapped. In October of the same year, a range Rover caught fire on the Shanghai-Chongqing Expressway, accompanied by an explosion. The owner described the hood as smoking and then caught fire, and eventually the whole car was also burned to the rest of the frame.

It is understood that the range Rover is an imported model of Land Rover, the current guidance price of domestic models on sale is 122.50-3.213 million yuan, positioning in large and medium-sized SUV, is a flagship model of Land Rover. Although the range Rover is a pure imported car, its reputation is not as good as that of domestic Land Rover, and it is impossible to know exactly the purchase and maintenance ways of the car owners, so the cause of the fire and the way to deal with the accident need further information. Land Rover responded that the above incidents have been properly resolved.

According to the latest financial report, Jaguar Land Rover 2020 accumulated global sales of 74067 vehicles in the first quarter (April-June), down 42.24% from a year earlier, achieving revenue of 2.9 billion pounds and a net loss of 413 million pounds before tax and interest.

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